The Long Road

04/14/2003 Archived Entry: "Know your media!!"

There are very few things that I find more annoying than people who mis-label their media. It is immensely frustrating to find out that after downloading 700 megs of twetwotowers.divx.screener.realversion.notfake.avi that it's NOT the real version and that it IS fake. It's like "10 things I hate about you" or some such nonsense. I don't understand how people can have something so blatantly mis-labelled. It's sometimes forgiveable for something like the wrong episode number of a tv series, or the wrong artist for a song but to have something labelled as something completely different is utterly insipid. Sometimes I think that some people label things incorrectly just so others will waste time downloading it. WHY?!? What benefit is there to them aside from a maybe few seconds of chukling? They lose hours of bandwidth uploading it and harddrive space storing something they probably don't want in the first place. And if they do get a laugh out of it then they seriously need help.

Replies: 4 comments

Try going through a downloads directory of a female person's computer. I shouldn't generalize, but I am. I apologize to any females for whom this is not the case, but I find 9 times out of 10 that it is filled with improperly labeled music and video files, incomplete files and errored files. Most of my male friends, however, all have some type of organization to their media. Some are more organized than others, but most of us have some type of naming convention we use and make sure all our files meet this. If they don't, we fix it. I can't imagine not being like this. It would be impossible to quickly find an exact song or create that exact right playlist.

What am I saying here? I know what you're talking about and it bothers the hell out of me, too. I've found that usually these mislabeled files are stored on the computers of girls, old people or those very new to downloading things. They're the ones perpetuating this incorrect data.

Posted by Romer @ 04/15/2003 04:51 AM EST

or how about the people that organize their music with good players based on id3 tags. And have to retag all the music they get from a certain someone :) No complaining though, it isn't usually a problem to tag things with a good program.

Posted by sbdep @ 04/15/2003 01:35 PM EST

I think girls a to blame for a lot of things! =)

Though next time I'm near a girl's pc I'll have to check out their media files and make an example of them.

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